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Verb expurgate has 1 sense
- bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
--1 is one way to abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
Sample sentence:
They won't expurgate the story
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